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Louis Malle, My Dinner with André, 1981. André Gregory. edit

True Story

A legendary director’s larger-than-life memoir
Nathan Taylor Pemberton

What’s So Funny?

Two poems from Terminalia
Daniel Menaker
Diana Markosian, Mom by the Pool, 2019, ink-jet print, 26 x 40".

Daytime Regained

A photographer restages her childhood as her mother’s favorite soap opera
Audrey Wollen

Party Going

On pleasure and survival in Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille
Sara Krolewski
Alanna Fields, Untitled II (detail), 2019, ink-jet print, wax, and Japanzese kozo on panel, 6 × 8".

The Hate You Live

P. Lewis’s portrait of entrapment and unmitigated rage
Hubert Adjei-Kontoh
paper trail
Laura Poitras. Photo: Katy Scoggin/Praxis Films/Wikimedia Commons
Laura Poitras fired by First Look Media; Jennifer Szalai tracks usage of the term “Orwellian”
politics
Smoke particles from West Coast wildfires alter the sky's colors, Oregon, September 8, 2020.
Kate Soper’s hopeful vision of life after consumerism
Sarah Jaffe
politics
How Black activists organized within the women’s suffrage movement
Martha S. Jones
culture
Celia Paul in her studio, London, 2019.
Celia Paul’s memoir of a life lived through art—and with Lucian Freud
Janique Vigier
culture
Candace Jane Opper’s obsessive remembrance of a teen crush who died by suicide
Kristen Martin
fiction
Edward Zwick, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, 2016. Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise).
Jack Reacher’s good fights
Michael Robbins
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